ASP feedback

[budgy]

Hi guys, Im developing a new site at the moment which will have the look and feel of the bbc site, what im workiing on currently is creating a feedback function. A function which will allow a user to input various fields and then those values are emailed to a specified email when the submit button is pressed. Any reccomendations, or any sussgestions wil be much appreciated. Thank you all in advance.

 

[jakeyg]

Just finished one of these
Do you have your own mailserver ? If you do it's easy to use CDONTS mail. Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

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http://hosting.fast-trak.net/tutorials/cdonts_asp_tutorial.htm

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There was an old site which used to send emails via an ASP link to a company called blackcountry.net, but the resultant message wasn't pretty

It's easier in my site to store the info in a database and then send a "someone has registered" email than email the feedback details and have some poor monkey type/copy paste it into a DB somewhere

You may not need to email it at all if you store the details in a db. I'ld have been happy checking the db for new messages periodically, don't really need any more emails in my inbox

 

[a6m1n0]

Problem: CDONTS was deprecated (replaced) by CDOSYS. If the server processing the page is Windows 2003 Server, CDONTS won't work, but CDOSYS will work on either Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server.

CDOSYS can be tricky to incorporate into your site depending on the host. There are a million and one factors to consider which is why I am reluctant to post code.

Question(s): What server Platform are you using? Are you using a third party host, or are you hosting this on your server?